Jest Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Jest
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Jest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 - 124
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Jest 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.14% - 0.057%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.69% - 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £479 - -
25th Percentile £484 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
75th Percentile £522 - -
90th Percentile £531 - -
South East median daily rate £500 - £500

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

Jest falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 291 315 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.85% 20.45% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 210 131
10th Percentile £365 £382 £308
25th Percentile £413 £426 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £581 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.94% +16.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £600
90th Percentile £639 £670 £675
South East median daily rate £481 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.45% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile - £33.53 £35.70
25th Percentile - £42.20 £54.94
Median hourly rate £81.00 £58.30 £72.28
Median % change year-on-year +38.94% -19.34% -4.58%
75th Percentile £81.25 £67.41 £90.25
90th Percentile £81.70 £71.88 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.04% -4.05%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Jest relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Jest job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Jest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Jest

Jest
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 2 £500 -
Jest
South East

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (50.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Fastify
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Sass
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Blocking Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Virgin Media